Word: lamm
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...members that the group issued a few days later. At week's end Robb, Jim Blanchard of Michigan, and Bruce Babbitt of Arizona were the only Governors remaining of ten whose names had appeared on preliminary lists (among the dropouts: Bob Graham of Florida, Bill Clinton of Arkansas, Richard Lamm of Colorado). Ohio Congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar announced that she would have nothing to do with the council, even though it had listed her as a member. Her defection left the council with no female members, a fact noted caustically by Connecticut Congresswoman Barbara Kennelly. Said she: "Forget it, gentlemen...
...Governors, 34 of whom are Democrats, issued no outcry against the proposed cutoff. "Revenue sharing has got to be on the table with everything else," said Colorado's Richard Lamm, a Democrat, about the concerted need to reduce the national deficit. But the Governors are by no means idle spectators in the fight over the program. They know that if cities lose their customary Washington pipeline, they will turn first to their state capitals to try to close the gap. Many Governors contend that their state surpluses are small relative to their budgets, and that they are required...
What quantity and quality of hospital care people have a right to expect lies at the center of the problem, particularly since 90% of the bills are paid by some type of organization. As Colorado's Governor Lamm tartly puts it, "We give food stamps, but we don't give people the right to go to Jack's [an expensive San Francisco restaurant] for dinner." Harry Schwartz, writer in residence at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, maintains that "people simply do not realize the costs of health care. In making medical care seem free, we've made people...
...each pushing its parochial agenda singlemindedly. Hispanic organizations oppose the Simp-son-Mazzoli immigration bill? Then so does the Democratic Party. Unions want to limit imports of foreign automobiles? Then so does the party. "We are the accumulated wish list of all our constituency groups," says Colorado Governor Richard Lamm. Democratic Strategist Patrick Caddell, an adviser to the Gary Hart campaign last spring, has been screaming the same thing for years. "Instead of being just fiercely protective of particular interests, like women's rights," Caddell suggests, "the party must be far more assertive about national interests...
...future stars will be struggling to shape the spirit and ideology of the party, if not perhaps to win its 1988 nomination. Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy will probably carry the flickering old liberal flame. Others have positioned themselves as potential leaders of the new breed. Among Governors, these include Lamm of Colorado, Bruce Babbitt of Arizona, Bob Kerrey of Nebraska and Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts. In the Senate there are Bumpers of Arkansas and Joseph Biden of Delaware...